Position Paper Blog #3: Global Warming

The feelings that my research has resulted on me has changed very little from when I first started researching about global warming. The side that I am on for global warming is the con side. I feel as though there are more cons about global warming than there are pros. The pros and cons both have about the same amount of reasons but I think there are stronger impacts from the cons. I think that the major issue about global warming is that as the Earth warms up, the ocean levels rise due to the melting ice in Greenland, and the Antarctic. The rising ocean levels will inundate roads, farmland, towns, and even cities. The cost will be trillions of dollars. A warmer Earth equals more powerful storms, with increasing frequency. Wildlife will also suffer if their habitats change more quickly than they can adapt. I think that those issues are pretty bad towards the earth. Other people, on the pro side, might think that those issues won't impact the world severely. It might not hurt/ make a difference in everyone's life in the whole world, but it is still an important topic to try to help out with. That is why I am more towards the con side about global warming.

Work Cited

http://www.2facts.com/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i1200200&term=global+warming

http://www.2facts.com/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i0300010&term=global+warming#i0300010_5

Position Paper Blog #2: Global Warming

Many people might find global warming as a serious issue, and others might find it as something going on that just has to deal with polar bears dying. There are pro and con issues that deal with global warming and some might find them true, or other might find those facts false. Global warming has many con effects, in other words; bad effects. Some cons are that as the Earth warms, the ocean levels will rise due to melting ice in Greenland, and the Antarctic. The rising ocean levels will inundate roads, farmland, towns, and even cities. The cost will be in the trillions. A warmer Earth equals more powerful storms, with increasing frequency. Wildlife will suffer if their habitats change more quickly than they can adapt. The solution to our future energy needs lies in greater use of renewable energy sources for both heat and power. People think that nuclear power is the solution, and it's not.

There aren't many pros about global warming, but to some people there might be. Some pros might be that there is increased agricultural productivity & land; more rain, warmth & Co2, longer growing seasons for all plant life, greening of some of the Earth's vast frozen land masses, and added habitat for wildlife. Those are some good advantages, but there are advantages and disadvantages for everything. Sometimes the advantages take over the disadvantages, and sometimes vise-versa. In this case there are more severe disadvantages than there are advantages.

Work cited
http://www.2facts.com/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i1200200&term=global+warming

Position Paper Blog #1: Global Warming

Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist that was the first to say, in 1896, that the burning of fossil fuels may eventually result in global warming. He set up a relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and temperature. He found that the average surface temperature of the earth is about 15 degrees C because of the infrared absorption capacity of water vapor and carbon dioxide which is called the natural greenhouse effect. Global warming has become a very complicated issue in the world. Scientists are warning more and more people everyday about the dangers from the accumulation of human-related greenhouse gases produced mostly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests. Many people believe that global warming is going to get serious and  all the ice is going to melt. Others just think that the world will have a slight temperature change and everything will be the same. Global warming wasn't that big of an issue about 4 years ago, and throughout the years the topic has gained a lot more interest. My opinion on global warming is that it is a topic that should be taken seriously because you never know what could actually happen.

work cited
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html